Storage-battery container



S. ISAACSON STORAGE BATTERY CONTAINER OV-ll 1924 Filed April 15,

Patented Nov. 11, 1924;

- SIDNEY ISAACSON, OF YORK, N. Y.

K STORAGE-BATTERY CONTAINER.

Application filed April.13, 1922. Serial No. 552,206.

containers. One object thereof is to provide a container which shallmake it possible to assemble the various elements of a small storagebattery adapted for use in amateur electrical work such as radio-phonesand the like, in the form of a very compact and portable article whichmay be easily packed for shipment, carried from place to place and shalloccupy comparatively small space when installed.

. Other objects of this invention will in part be obvious and in parthereinafter set forth. The invention accordingly consists in thefeatures of construction, combinations of elements and arrangement ofparts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafterdescribed and of which the scope of application will be indicated in thefollowing claim. In the accompanying drawings, in which is shown one ofvarious possible illustrative embodiments of this invention.

Fig. 1 is a verticalcross-sectional View of a storage battery containerembodying my invention shown with the plates in position in the cells;

Fig. 2 is a plan view partially broken away of the container shown inFig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is an end cross-sectional view through one compartment out alongline 33 of Fig. 1

Referring in detail to the drawing, 10 indicates a container made fromacid resisting material such .as hard rubber or the like material, andhaving separate compartments or cells 10, 10 10 formed by the verticalpartitions 11: 12, 13 These partitions are preferably formed integralwith the container and extend upwardly from the bottom 14 thereof towithin a short distance from the top of the vertical walls 15 of' thecontainer. A space 15 is thus provided wherein snugly fits a covermember 16. The latter is adapted to rest on the tops 11", 12, 13 of thepartitions 11, 12, 13 with its upper face substantiall fiushwith the topof the container as wil be--read1ly understood. The battery plates 17,17", 17 rest on supports 18, 18, upstandin from the bottom of thecontainer and pre erably formed integral therewith.

A pair of rows of spaces openings 19, 20 is provided in the cover so asto communicate with. the separate cells. Each pairof such openings suchas 19, 20 communicates with its corresponding cell 10 as will be readilyunderstood. Electrical connection 1 of the battery plates is thus veryeasily effected, the terminals 21 for the plates extending through saidopenings and being suitably connected as desired at the top of the cover16 as shown at 22.

Centrally disposedvon the cover is an intermediate row of openings 23,each of which communcates with a corresponding cell, thus providingmeans for filling each separate cell with the electrolyte or foremptying each cell as desired without removing the cover ordisconnecting the plates.

It will thus be seen that there is provided a device in which theseveral objects of this invention are achieved and which is Well adaptedto meet the conditions of practical use.

As various possible embodiments might be made of the above invention andas various changes might be made in the embodiment Gil above set forth,it is to be understood that all matter herein set forth or shown in theaccompanying drawings is to be interpreted as illustrative and not in alimiting sense.

Having thus described my invention, I

.claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A storage batterycontainer comprising a unitary construction having a body consist-1 ingof a bottom, side walls and end walls formed integral with said bottom,transverse partitions arranged integral with the bottom and side wallsof the body and extending u wardly from the bottom to points below t eupper ends of said walls, said partitions dividing the interior of'thebody into a plurality ofon-communicat-ing cells adapted to containbattery plates, longi tudinal ribs formed integral with and upstandingfrom the bottom between the partitions and adapted to support batteryplates within the body, and a one-piece cover extending over the entireopen end of said body for closing all of said cells, resting for supporton said artitions and having its edges engaging t e inner surfaces ofsaid wallstthe upper surfaces of the cover being.

substantially flush with the upper edges of said walls, said cover beingprovided with pairs of o nings corresponding with each cell and a aptedto permit the free passages of the leads of the plates in one cell tothe exterior for connection to the leads in the be filled withelectrolyte.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature SIDNEY ISAAOSON.

